Health Promotion
Breast Screening: Have you had yours yet?
Cervical Screening: Have you had yours yet?
Prepd
Syphilis
Mpox
Support for Trans, Gender Diverse & Non-Binary Communities
U=U
suicide prevention campaign for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and LGBTIQ+ Sistergirl and Brotherboy community
The Queensland Council for LGBTI Health (QC) is dedicated to promoting the health and wellbeing of LGBTIQ+SB communities across Queensland. Their health promotion initiatives include initiatives led by our First Nations communities and 2Spirits, Our Health Matters, for our Trans, Gender-Diverse and Non-Binary communities, and our ComePrepd Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) HIV, prevention campaign, helping to improve physical and mental health and wellbeing for our LGBTIQ+SB people and communities. QC’s efforts ensure that all community members have access to the resources and care they need to lead healthy lives.
As stated in the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion, “Health promotion is the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health. To reach a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, an individual or group must be able to identify and to realize aspirations, to satisfy needs, and to change or cope with the environment. Health is, therefore, seen as a resource for everyday life, not the objective of living. Health is a positive concept emphasizing social and personal resources, as well as physical capacities. Therefore, health promotion is not just the responsibility of the health sector, but goes beyond healthy life-styles to well-being.”
Breast Screening: Have you had yours yet?
2Spirits and QC have launched new health resources focusing on breast and chest screening for Queensland’s Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander, and South Sea Islander LGBTI+ communities. These resources aim to increase health literacy, encourage regular self-examinations, and raise awareness about cancer screening to reduce mortality rates. Developed over two years, the initiative highlights the importance of checking for changes and lumps in susu, breast, and chest health.
2Spirits and QC have launched new health resources on cervical screening for Queensland’s Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander, and South Sea Islander LGBTI+ communities. These resources aim to address the lack of information on cervix health and encourage regular screening, empowering individuals to increase their health literacy and awareness. The initiative is designed to reduce higher mortality rates from cervical cancer through education and community engagement.
Cervical Screening: Have you had yours yet?
ComePrepd
PrEP is a prevention strategy where HIV-negative people take medication to prevent HIV infection. Taking PrEP is as simple as taking one pill a day.
ComePrepd is a community-driven HIV prevention campaign by QC to raise awareness of PrEP.
For more information, please visit the ComePrepd website.
Let’s Treat Syphilis
Syphilis is a sexually transmissible infection (STI) caused by the bacteria Treponema Pallidum and is spread through oral, anal, and genital contact.
QC and Queensland Positive People (QPP) have worked together to create campaigns and a website.
For more information, please visit the Let's Treat Syphilis website.
Mpox
Our Health Matters, launched in 2023, is created by and owned by our Trans, Gender Diverse and Non-Binary communities and people in Queensland to champion health priorities and support, inform and support TGDNB folks right across Queensland.
It's important to take control of your own sexual health.
Our Health Matters aims to support people within the Trans, Gender Diverse and Non-Binary communities and those making their own way through the world. We acknowledge that it may not be relatable for all folk, and we apologise if it isn’t for you.
Our Health Matters
Yarns Heal is a suicide prevention campaign for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and LGBTIQ+ Sistergirl and Brotherboy community; it's about sharing our stories and reaching out to our loved ones and Community Cultural Connectors when times are tough. Yarns Heal will help us learn how to support one another better and aims to strengthen our peer support systems so we can access help in culturally safe ways that nurture cultural healing, love and hope.
U=U (Treatment as Prevention)
Yarns Heal
Historical Health Promotion
From our inception with our LGBTIQ+ communities, QC has a long history of working with and promoting positive change to health and wellbeing for our communities.
Please enjoy some historical resources below to look back on from part of our organisation’s journey.
If you or anyone you know has more information or would like to discuss our history, please feel free to get in contact with us.